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I use a drysuit in the southeast, how you can get away with being a skier in Minnesota (or any other M state, besides Mississippi) without a drysuit is a mystery to me.

I've got to comment on those chrome dash plates, thats annoying when the tail sun reflection off that dash is just as bad as the head sun glare. We have MC TT and it is bad on that as well, I'd be a big fan of flat black dash instrument panel surrounding (probably not a problem with a Bimini top, we just don't have one yet)

I'm using Fogmans right now, but at some point, I'll probably be riding the Dual Lock system. It seems to be slowly gaining momentum, and I like the idea of all in or all out.

This went a lot further than I thought, I'm 51, learned behind a 14' with a 60 hp Evinrude in salt water, on wooden skis with a ski belt. Went to the 1979 Masters with some friends and I've been pretty much hooked since then.

aawww....I didn't make the list....but I'll be okay.

There's an old saying about Jumpers...."there are those who have had surgery and those who will have surgery". I sure did love jumping, but the way I did it, it didn't love me back.

I keep the line tight by staying on a slight outside edge until "my time" to turn in. I also keep my elbows tight against the vest while on that outside edge.

I've had a course in 2 different 1700' lakes, one of them had a Dog Leg at one end. But you need a pretty decent accelerating boat and it needs to settle when it hits the speed. I haven't noticed any overshoot of the speed w ZO. 1700 is doable, for a standard 6 buoy. Longer is better.

Front straight, rear rotated a little (if you say canted, some people will have a fit, but I know what you mean)

I like what KB writes. He dosen't write a lot, but when he does it's like Bruce Butterfield's stuff to me. I like my on the water thoughts simple and basic. I prefer my on the land thoughts to be simple and basic. Skiing has a huge number of odd contradictions for me and I've had to trick myself some to accept them and trust them. I'm looking for a feel in my skiing, there's an almost effortless ride that feels like you're riding a swing, arcing on a pendulum. I know Bud had a discussion on another website about whether skiing was a pendulum and I think I know where he was trying to go with that before the train got derailed. Now, I don't picture riding a pendulum, in my mind I'm trying to ski straight lines from one spot to another, but when I get the ski pointed where I want to go, progressively load and unload, don't overload the rope or underload the rope it feels like this amazing effortless ride from one apex to the next, which to me feels like riding a swing (or pendulum). But if I start thinking about counter rotation, keep the shoulders level, move the center of mass this way or that way, reach here, reach there, I'm in trouble.

skidawg, do you ever run it in practice? That video of you running 3 (I think it was) has a good looking pace to it from what I remember.

I know Andy did it in a C, I drove one of the rounds (2 at 43) Dana Reed drove the next round (4 at 43). It was Perfect Pass and also an accufloat "type" course that was not RC. I know eventually it will get run in an RC tournament....I'm just wondering if this is the year.

Does anyone think that 41 at 34mph will be run in a R tournament this year?

Or you can stay on your old ski, figure it out on your own (with help from a cast of thousands, read everything, try many things, think about it far to often, watch every good skier, watch every bad skier, ski every chance you get, in every condition known to man) The truth is until you people start buying more houses, apartments, condos, factories, land, pipelines and other engineering related stuff, I can't pay for a new ski or coaching. But I can still afford to ski.

There's a guy that shows up at our lake sometimes. When he rides in the boat and I'm skiing, he starts throwing out "physics this, physics that, x component, y component," I immediately lose 2 passes. I understand some people need to think of it that way, but that gets way to complicated for me.

If you use a tension rope as long as your anchor rope, you can just attach it to the diamond at the gate, then you won't need to mark it with a buoy (just another option)

I don't find a whole lot of springy in Masterlines after the first set. I change every year because I hate THAT CRASH. Often times they'll break in the middle of the 39 section with no visual signs (or very little). That reminds me....time for a new rope.

If it wasn't Mike S., my next guess was Bob....any closer? Kris was option 3, I'm pretty sure he quit jumping early in his career.

Good stuff, I'm pretty sure I see Kris and Bob Lapoint (that ski Kris is riding looks pretty small). Is that Mike Suyderhoud in the red jump helmet? Who are the other skiers. This is taking it back a little ways. That Hydrodyne and the nautique were very, very small back in the day.

I love old water ski tournaments and competition....the older the better

This is my second round of P90X, I have some sort of "itis" in both of my knees. I was concerned about doing P90X because all sorts of activities cause my knees to become inflamed (including slalom). I was surprised that they actually felt better to some degree after getting acclimated to the routines, I assume it's due to the warmup, stretching, exercise, cool down. Don't get me wrong, it didn't give me the knees of a 20 year old (I'm 51), but I'm very pleased with the program. I do put in more rest days than they do unless you count that I'm also skiing 1 or 2 sets a week through the winter. I'll probably complete it in closer to 115-120 days as opposed to 90.

I have a few questions: Was this a boat launching or a boat retrieving?; Was beer involved?; Doesn't that water look a little rough for skiing?

I'll just go ahead and ban myself....

MS if your southern was better, I would have understood your message better......but I definitely got lost.

Razor, I like your ramblings, it makes me think of things in different ways. I've gone back and read your first post a few times about being light and try to figure out how I want to think about it on the water. The one above about movement speaks to me better (i think). I've been trying to ski some throughout the winter, but water temp in the 40s has been freezing my movement some. I can get the feel I want a few buoys at a time, but keeping the feeling with six turns and loads has been escaping me. Fortunately my expectations aren't high right now, but I think I need to be lighter into the centerline so that I can feel lighter leaving the wakes in a better position.